ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,766, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Hinge with translatable axis" was invented by Anthony E. Hillyerd (Sammamish, Wash.), Christina Ashley Yee (Redmond, Wash.), Aseem Singla (Redmond, Wash.), Robyn Rebecca Reed McLaughlin (Seattle), Kaitlyn Marley Schoeck (Seattle), Hua Wang (Redmond, Wash.), Daniel Dhondt (Redmond, Wash.), Brian David Bitz (Woodinville, Wash.) and Joseph Benjamin Gault (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinge system has a first body and a second body rotatably connected to one another around a first pivot point. The second body has a top surface and ...